All of Me (Babydoll Suite)

In May 2019, Shadow Spark Publishing announced to me they planned to publish my six-volume poetry series, All of Me. Little over two months later, and to my infinite surprise and delight, the first volume was in print. This was the very first poem I wrote, after learning of their intention to release my works. I wished to elucidate readers on my character, right at commencement, thus this verse featured early on in All of Me Vol. I. You can purchase that, or any of the other five volumes, on both paperback or kindle editions, here.

Listen to All of Me by Richard Charles Stevens (Babydoll Suite)

Listen to Baby’s Got A Temper by The Prodigy

Testifying reinforcement
Fresh designs to lend endorsement
Pay no mind to spent endorphins
Trial suspension
Test the torsion
Venture not with disproportion
Toss the wind a length of caution
Put the old you up for auction
Make a good view bloody awesome
.
Make a good view bloody awesome
.
Form assumptions as you please
But please do informedly
Measures really need not be precautionary
For all of my deformities
I’m fairly square and ordinary
No market share on awful deeds
No plans on storming Normandy
No narcissistic tendencies or ego of enormity
Indeed my one dependency is writing off such forgeries
Man-made words shoe-horned to fit
To warn us off from self-belief
Release the bit between our teeth
And true to form forlornly quit
Horizon will be bleak unless we broaden it
(Broaden it)
Take the borders
Make them disproportionately inordinate
Form assumptions as you please
Or better yet just talk to me
Do so with politeness and I might invite an audience to all of me
.
All of me
(All of me)
All you ever see is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
All you ever see is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
Whether brisk as inland breeze
Or ill at ease and all at sea
All you’ve ever seen is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
.
All of me
All of me
(All of me)
.
Every day I take to the most public of domains
Dismay at the array of human error on display
Too many wars on terror have us bent all out of shape
Shadowing the virtueless with burden of decay
#FarTooLittle
#WayTooLate
#HumanityIsScrewed
Trending us towards a more remorseless point of view
Attitude adjustments are unjustly skewed of home improvement
Teaching of obedience
Impeding further slurring movement
Hope deterred
And faith misplaced
Blind conferring taking place
Something lurks behind the grate
Stating most persuasive case
Hateful in its graphic haste to make the rapids into arid wastelands damned by fate of saving grace
#FarTooLittle
#WayTooLate
#HumanityIsScrewed
Hardly the best way to set the mood
.
All you ever see is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
All you ever see is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
Nothing false or incomplete
Cannot be more indiscreet
All you’ve ever seen is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
All you ever see is all of me
(All of me)
.
Testifying reinforcement
Fresh designs to lend endorsement
Pay no mind to spent endorphins
Trial suspension
Test the torsion
Venture not with disproportion
Toss the wind a length of caution
Put the old you up for auction
Make a good view bloody awesome
Make a good view bloody awesome
Make a good view bloody awesome
.
All you ever see is all of me
All of me
(Bloody awesome)
All you ever see is all of me
All of me
(Bloody awesome)
Whether brisk as inland breeze
Or ill at ease and all at sea
(Bloody awesome)
All you’ve ever seen is all of me
All of me
(All of me)
.
All you ever see is all of me
Nothing false or incomplete
Cannot be more indiscreet
All you’ve ever seen is all of me
(All of me)
All you ever see is all of me
.
Every day I take to the most public of domains
Reconfirm belief that we can firmly change the game
Feed desire to reach the spire
Aspire to go one better
Maybe start a fire or two
And please feel free to quote me to the letter
.